Steven Tyler Takes On Donald Trump

Apparently Steven Tyler doesn't like Donald Trump using Aerosmith songs during campaign stops. No matter your political leanings, you must agree it isn't cool for candidates to just use a band's music without asking first. This comes up every campaign season. You'd think politicians would learn.

Attorneys for Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler asks Donald Trump to stop using "Dream On" song: http://t.co/a4PfIAV373

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 11, 2015

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[GNR]

Do you really think its the "politicians" themselves pumping out Aerosmith, Fleetwood Mac, The Boss, etc... ? Nope... just the political machine behind each one trying to pander to the masses.

Donald Trump is a buffoon, but please we all like music and associate ourselves with a song or into that particular frame of mind where the song relates to you or what you are or what you want to say out loud to everyone. You can't pick and choose as a band who you move with your tunes or who likes what you do. If that was the case, I'm sure Motley would take all the big chested blondes of the world (ok... maybe that's a bit much).

Democrats, Republicans, Independents, whatever you are, we all just want to Dream On for a better world. Just like when you make the song Steven... you had no idea how moving it could be.

[bkallday]

That pic though. Wow...

[Metalboy!]

Hey, whatever you wanna say about Trump, at least he's got great taste in music, unlike those other Republican As*clowns! In observing various Trump rallies over the last several months, the two events where I heard music, one concluded with "We're Not Gonna Take It" and the other with "Dream On".

At the conclusion of the first event, which was covered by CNN and MSNBC but oddly, at least to me, not FOX, I switched to C-SPAN when the aforementioned networks cut away and there was Trump, commentator free, roaming around the audience shaking hands to the vocal stylings of Dee Snyder.

He then looked directly into the camera and lip synced those immortal words. Kinda makes you think Trump personally selects, or at the very least, approves the music played at his events. Hey, man, he may not know much about foreign policy but he sure knows his Rock & Roll!

[Dj]

They really should ask permission to use any song by any artist. But on the other hand, you can't control who likes your music. Whether you're a fan of gangster rap or black metal, I think "Dream On" can relate to just about every person on the planet.

[Metalboy!]

News Flash! Steven Tyler AND Joe Perry are both Republicans but they DO NOT want Trump, or any other candidate, for that matter, to play their music without permission.

[fletch]

Perry is definitely Republican. I surmise that Tyler is an Independent or Green Party. In Perry's autobiography, he kinda dismissed 'dream on'; writing that he is rather perplexed the impact it has on society. Shows his loyalties (and state of mind) a bit more.